I’d be mortified if I failed a credit check, in store, in front of people.
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Other UK iPhone (2017) X(Ten)/8/8+ Pre-Orders and Dispatch Thread
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Dunno what would look more sketchy: failing the check or pulling out nearly a grand in ruffled tenners!might have to keep a wad of £10 notes to pay by just in case.
That’s what I’m thinking too. I’ll still probably try the buying outright first, then check for availability via IUP.
It’s fairly simple to do the IUP one but a lot of steps to click through - found either at the top of the X product page or in Account.
Love it!might have to keep a wad of £10 notes to pay in cash by just in case.
Go in and “whap your wad on the counter”!
Gone a bit quiet around here this morning.
People must be resting, busy with their new gadgets, or perhaps just getting on with ordinary life.
People must be resting, busy with their new gadgets, or perhaps just getting on with ordinary life.
Is anyone else finding the 8 quite laggy? I’ve noticed a few times this morning major lags when not putting the phone under any major stress. Not that impressed by it so far and I’ve gone from a 6s!
Do they “index” like new MacBooks do? If so, that could be the cause.
Nor noticed any lag on my 8+ but there was a spell last night where the spinning symbol (not the synch symbol) in the top bar was constantly spinning and the device was running pretty hot.
All running well now.
It’s possibly more iOS 11? I’m finding it a little off on my 10.5" iPad Pro. It takes a sec to change from portrait to landscape etc. Hoping it’ll settle with a little update in the next week or so.
Off topic but Touch ID under the screen next year?
https://twitter.com/qualcomm/status/885169860841320448
https://twitter.com/qualcomm/status/885169860841320448
Wahoo! Finally collected from the UKMail depot at 8AM this morning with no hassle.
Loving my spigen neo hybrid case too!
Loving my spigen neo hybrid case too!
I don’t think we will ever see TouchID again in the premium devices.
Assuming FaceID has no major issues (and I expect it will be fine) then there is no need at all for Touch ID. Especially as in the Keynote it was made clear hay FaceID is 20 Times more secure - why would they go backwards?
Whilst some people think that the removal of TouchID was purely down to technical limitations putting under screen - I believe that FaceID was always seen as the future (replacing TouchID), but they wanted to still include TouchID whilst transitioning and to buy them more time in implementing the face authentication. The technical issues simply accelerated their plan.
If Apple never restores TouchID and goes all in with FaceID, then I can safely say that my iPhone 8+ will be the last Apple device I ever buy.
I think the only reason they didn’t include Touch ID is they couldn’t get to work under the screen. A lot of biometric systems use both and I believe future iPhones will use both Face & Touch ID.
Birmingham apple store was less busy than a normal Saturday. Doing the IUP was a pain, as the staff member said she hadn’t been trained in how to do an IUP and didn’t know what to do with last year’s IUP phone that I was handing back. Took about 45 minutes
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Yeah I would be the same. Seems like he didn't know it was a loan with Barclays, thought Apple would give him a £1000 without doing any checks he could afford the repayments.
Decided to sit it out this year and going to replace my jet black 7 with a jet black 7 plus as I could use a bit more screen size.. trouble is finding a decent one for sale , eBay is a bit of a minefield!